The Lord said to me…”I will test my people with a Plumbline,
Amos 7:8 (TLB)
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of Christ.
Bite Your Tongue
Someone
has said, “Language, like linen, looks best when it is clean.”
A
lad in Boston rather small for his age worked in an office as an errand boy. One day his employers were mocking him a
little about being so small and said
"You will never amount to much; you are too small.”
The
lad looked at them and said, "Well, I can do something which none of you four men can do.”
What
is that they asked?
"I
don't know that I should tell you," They were eager to know and urged him
to tell them what he could do what none
of them was able to do.
The little fellow replied,
“I can keep from swearing.”
That ended the conversation.
Deuteronomy 5:11 (NASB) 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your
God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in
vain.
Hosea 4:2 (NKJV) By swearing and
lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint,
With bloodshed upon bloodshed.
Matthew 5:34 (NKJV) But I say to
you, do not swear at all:
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